Ladies and gentlemen, it was an entirely different situation. Forget the fact that Republicans and Democrats were working better together, we were not in the fiscal hole we are in now.

the challenge with Congress is that we create commissions and we create task forces and we look at problem sets, and we develop potential solutions, and then there is no real mechanism to give them the force of law

the problem is not the process, it is the people.

What we wanted was to improve the process.

I think this is something both sides of the aisle should celebrate as we pass this resolution.

A bipartisan fiscal commission will not be easy for any single person on this side of the aisle or this side of the aisle to vote for.

This whole discussion about the budget process, this whole discussion about the debt commission, this whole discussion about the fiscal condition of our country...

There is presently an acute and immediate need to conduct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States.

The intent behind this is to ensure greater engagement from these agencies and the U.S. Government in carrying out the COFA agreements.

Yes, and I actually was down there and saw migrants come across with three backpacks full of drugs.

I am so proud of you.

we just have to have some ability to be able to constrain Congress from moving past the moment to some future milestone and give it the force of law today

Pro tempore, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 5 o'clock and 11 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, October 19, 2023, at noon…

the American public just--we are afraid to tell the American public the inconvenient truth because if you tell them what the problem is, they are going to want to know what the solution is

if you can't do something like that, then what, pray tell, can you do to fix the bigger problem?

if you are going to fix a $2 trillion deficit and indeed quit digging this hole deeper, you can't do it on discretionary spending.

A commission may be the best shot we have to help us get back on track.

This Congress, the House Committee on Natural Resources has prioritized the work of renewing the COFAs.